Nick Ut

Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Nick Ut, center, flanked by Kim Phuc, left, holds the "Napalm Girl", his Pulitzer Prize winning photo, as they wait to meet with Pope Francis during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, FILE)

A Sundance documentary called ‘The Stringer’ disputes who took AP’s ‘napalm girl’ photo in Vietnam

The authorship of The Associated Press’s renowned “napalm girl” photograph is being called into question in the new documentary “The Stringer,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah.
 
The marquee of the Egyptian Theatre is shown Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, in Park City, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

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Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Nick Ut, center, flanked by Kim Phuc, left, holds the "Napalm Girl", his Pulitzer Prize winning photo, as they wait to meet with Pope Francis during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, FILE)

He is credited with one of history’s most indelible photos. A new documentary questions who took it

 
FILE - The Associated Press' assistant general manager for news photos Hal Buell, center, and Dave Herbert, right, the consultant who wrote the electronic darkroom software, explain PhotoStream at the American Newspaper Publishers Association technical convention in Las Vegas in June 1987. Buell, who led The Associated Press' photo operations from the darkroom era into the age of digital photography over a four-decade career with the news organization that included 12 Pulitzer Prizes and running some of the defining images of the Vietnam War, has died. Buell died Monday, Jan. 29, 2024, in Sunnyvale, Calif., where his daughter lived, after battling pneumonia. He was 92. (AP Photo)

Hal Buell, who led AP’s photo operations from darkroom era into the digital age, dies at 92

 
FILE - In this March 29, 2012 file photo, Associated Press photographer Huynh Cong "Nick" Ut visits Kim Phuc's house near the place where he made his famous Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of her as a terrified 9-year-old in Trang Bang, Tay Ninh province, Vietnam. Ut will be retiring from the AP in March 2017 after 51 years of taking photographs from the front lines of the Vietnam War to the red carpets of Hollywood. (AP Photo/Na Son Nguyen)

AP PHOTOS: Nick Ut’s AP career took him ‘from hell to Hollywood’